Essay on AEON.CO: Some find it comforting to think of life as a story. Others find that absurd. So are you a Narrative or a non-Narrative? (LINK)
says the narrativist:
We story ourselves and we are our stories.
... one ‘must be in possession of a full and explicit narrative [of one’s life] to develop fully as a person’.
says the non-narrativist:
we have at best bits and pieces, rather than a story.
Me? I like to keep my story straight for others, but I try not to write my autobiography before I live it. I like the element of surprise.
